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In which decade was the Pro Caelio written?

56 BC

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What is the governmental structure of the time this speech is being performed?

2 consuls (year term), acting as president of the Senate. Consuls: conducted elections, put legislative matters to vote.

100

What is 'tirocinium'?

A probationary period, usually one year, in military or politics, in which you were heavily supervised

100

What is the lack of conjunctions called?

asyndeton

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Describe the Catlinarian Conspiracy

Cataline led a coup d'etat/overthrow the consuls of 63 BC

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What is the result of this case?

Caelius acquitted

200

What served as a check for the power of the Senate?

Tribune = elected official.  

  • Tribune of the plebians (10 of them), acted as a check on the authority of the Senate.

200

how do you say 'a man among men' in Latin?

vir inter viros

200

What is anaphora??

repetition of a word or a phrase

200

Who was consul during the Catilinarian conspiracy

 Cicero was a consul in 63 BC

300

Why are Clodius and Cicero enemies?

  •  Cicero sharply demolished Clodius' alibi when Clodius was accused of sacrilegious violation (incestum) of the secret rites of the Bona Dea

  • Clodius: proposes a law to exile Cicero. Why? Cicero called for the execution of the Catilinarian leaders. Cicero 16 mo exile = v depressed

300

Which character in our speech served as a tribune?

  • Publius Clodius Pulcher was a tribune. He was also part of the influential gens Claudia

300
translate: flagrabant vitia libidinis apud illum

the vices of love blazed in him

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what is sibiliance?

repetition of 's' sounds

300

He stood trial for what crime in 65 BC?

extortion

400

How does Clodius relate to this case?

  • Cicero recalled from exile! Why? Pompey is finding Clodius unbearable. Cicero resumes legal practice. 

  • Cicero spots opportunity to attack Clodius' fam 

    • Clodia (Clodius' sister) = Catullus' Lesbia = famous, immoral beauty 

    • Clodia attacked her former lover Marcus Caelius Rufus 

    • Caelius and Clodia had a love affair. Caelius broke it off for unknown reasons. Caelius and Clodia/Clodius were probs quite close. Clodia/Clodius not happy about Caelius breaking it off 

    • Marcus Caelius Rufus = clever, young politician. 

    • Caelius charged by the family of Clodius/Clodia

400
In which decade did Augustus become the first emperor?

27 BC

400

Translate: versare suam naturam et regere ad tempus atque huc illuc torquere ac flectere

he changed his nature and controlled it to suit the occasion and twisted and turned here and there.

400

What is hendiadys?

the expression of a single idea by two words connected with ‘and’, e.g. nice and warm, when one could be used to modify the other, as in nicely warm.




400

Cataline is called 'monstrum' -- what are the associations with that word?

monstrum = an unnatural phenomenon taken as a sign from the gods. (monstro = show).

500

List 2 of the 5 charges of Caelius by Clodius/Clodia family

Caelius charged by the family of Clodius/Clodia 

  1. Inciting civil disturbances at Naples; SERIOUS CHARGE = political violence 

  2. Assault on the Alexandrians envoys at Puteoli; 

  3. Damage to the property of Palla (about which we know little to nothing); 

  4. Involvement in murder of Dio of Alexandria, using gold obtained from Clodia 

  5. Preparing poison for use against Clodia

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What was the name of the 2 main political factions AND to which party did Cicero and Cataline belong

Optimates and Populares. Cicero was an optimate, Cataline was a populare.

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Explain the difference between 'expressus' and 'adumbratus'

expressus = clearly defined, superior, like a 3D statue

adumbratus = shadowy, sketchy, inferior, like a drafted sketch

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What is antithesis?

a statement contrasting 2 things, often using parallel structure

500

List 3 things that Cicero says is immoral/wrong about the nature of Cataline

(accept any reasonable response)